Speaking of Smith Archives

Great Antidote Extra: Eli Dourado on Energy Abundance

Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks

What if the U.S. and the world could do more with more? Eli Dourado and host Juliette Sellgren talk about what an energy abundant future looks like and what's stopping us from getting there.

Eli Dourado on Energy Abundance

Eli Dourado with Juliette Sellgren

March 24, 3023

Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero as a Smithian Anthem

Joy Buchanan for AdamSmithWorks

Adam Smith says people want to be loved and be lovely. Swift (and all of us) want to be accepted and to be genuinely praise-worthy in her actions and intentions.

Timothy Sandefur on Freedom's Furies

Timothy Sandefur with Juliette Sellgren

March 17, 2023

Great Antidote Extra: Henry Clark on Montesquieu

Christy Lynn for AdamSmithWorks

Host Juliette Sellgren does her best with returning guest Henry Clark to help a new generation discover the importance (and the fragility) of Montesquieu's wisdom.

Great Antidote Extras: Ryan Hanley on The Morality of Markets

Alice Temnick for AdamSmithWorks

A GREAT Great Antidote with Ryan Hanley and host Juliette Sellgren. They discuss Smith's morality, intellectual humility, and Smith's hidden "third" book.

Star Trek and Adam Smith: Imitating Captain Kirk

James E Hartley for AdamSmithWorks

"The episode is amusing, but underneath it lies a deep point. When Kirk wants to change a culture, he does not mount a frontal attack. Instead, he plays the game better than anyone else."

Juliette Sellgren on the Smith Questionnaire

Juliette Sellgren and Christy Lynn

Sellgren joins us on the Smith Questionnaire to talk about what her impartial spectator looks like, which episodes of her podcast she thinks Adam Smith would like, and much more.

The Continuing Relevance of David Hume’s Musings on Money

James Broughel for AdamSmithWorks

Although David Hume's essay "On Money," came long before the term “macroeconomics” came into vogue two centuries later, it might well be considered one of the first essays of that genre.

Chris Freiman on Consequentialism

Chris Freiman with Juliette Sellgren

March 3, 2023

On Knowing Good Character: A Comparison of Adam Smith and Confucius

Brennan McDavid for AdamSmithWorks

Both Confucius and Smith conceived of good character as being much more than the possession of a single morally good disposition. But the discernment is difficult and shows a difference between the two thinkers.

H.G. Wells should have read Adam Smith: Do the Eloi and Morlocks Trade?

James E Hartley for AdamSmithWorks

"Wells imagines this future without trade by imagining the division of labor becomes so acute that trade is no longer necessary. But, as Smith again would note, Wells has the causality backwards... The division of labor is the result of the impulse to trade, not the cause of trading."